Knoxville Opera to Plan Unique Performance of Puccini’s ‘Tosca’

Saturday, April 30, the Knoxville Opera is breaking all of the rules of conventional opera production with its April 30 performance of The Fifth Commandment Fund production of Giacomo Puccini's masterpiece Tosca.

For the first time in history, Puccini's dramatic Tosca will be experienced through an unforgettable one-day event. The audience will travel with the artists and orchestra to three unique venues to personally witness the suspenseful story of corruption, torture, murder and suicide as Puccini wrote it to be experienced.

The one of a kind production will take place on Saturday, April 30, in three acts:

ACT 1

Due to limited seating, ticketholders will select to attend one of the two performances below for Act 1:

2 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. performance at Church Street United Methodist Church

3:45 p.m. to 4:30 p.m. performance at Church Street United Methodist Church